Rachel Reeves has been branded "deluded" by commentator Carole Malone following her latest economic announcement to the nation.
The Chancellor laid out her Spring Statement on Wednesday, announcing a raid on welfare benefits and a boost to Britain's defence industry.
Reeves told Britons that Labour is the "party of work", declaring that if you "can work, you should work" - but pledged to "support" those who cannot.
Speaking to GB News, Malone hit out at the fiscal plan and asked "what planet" the Chancellor was on.
Malone said of the Spring Statement: "I was watching yesterday, and I was thinking, 'you just don't sound well at all'. You just sound a little bit mad and a bit deluded. To say you're fixing the foundations of the economy - the economy is flatlining, it's in the toilet.
"We've got stagnant growth, living standards are plummeting, and she's trying to make out like we're living in this country that's booming. What planet are you on?"
Criticising Labour's treatment of Britons, Malone claimed that Reeves was "talking to us like we're stupid" during her statement, despite the public "knowing what is going on" in the country's economy.
She told GB News: "She's talking to us like we're stupid, like we're idiots, like we don't understand what is actually going on, and we do.
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"How long are we going to have to bear with her? And this follows, of course, hot on the heels of the second free-loading scandal this week that we've seen. When I was watching it, it reminded me of past Chancellors, people like Nigel Lawson, people like Roy Jenkins, giants of men, clever men, informed men who delivered statements in a calm, rational manner.
"She was hectoring the other side. I just thought you have no respect, no respect for your office, no respect for your position."
Delivering his verdict on the Statement, commentator Jonathan Lis claimed that it was "not a statement a Labour Chancellor should be making".
He stated: "I don't think that this was a statement that a Labour Chancellor should have been making. I don't think it was the statement that a Labour Chancellor could be proud of making. This is incredibly disappointing.
"Fundamentally, it doesn't matter who is in Government, it is always wrong to balance the books on the backs of the poorest and most vulnerable, Particularly when balancing those books is really just squaring up a fiscal rule that you've invented yourself."
However, Lis also offered defence of Reeves and claimed she was "right" to declare that the "world is changing", amid incoming tariffs from US President Donald Trump.
He claimed: "With US tariffs coming down the line, we are going to be exposed, we're going to be exposed to these tariffs."
Hitting back at Lis, Malone concluded: "She inherited the fastest growing economy in the G7, and she's trashed it. There's no defence of that. All she had to do was nurture that take care of it. The growth forecast has now halved."
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The Chancellor laid out her Spring Statement on Wednesday, announcing a raid on welfare benefits and a boost to Britain's defence industry.
Reeves told Britons that Labour is the "party of work", declaring that if you "can work, you should work" - but pledged to "support" those who cannot.
Speaking to GB News, Malone hit out at the fiscal plan and asked "what planet" the Chancellor was on.
Malone said of the Spring Statement: "I was watching yesterday, and I was thinking, 'you just don't sound well at all'. You just sound a little bit mad and a bit deluded. To say you're fixing the foundations of the economy - the economy is flatlining, it's in the toilet.
"We've got stagnant growth, living standards are plummeting, and she's trying to make out like we're living in this country that's booming. What planet are you on?"
Criticising Labour's treatment of Britons, Malone claimed that Reeves was "talking to us like we're stupid" during her statement, despite the public "knowing what is going on" in the country's economy.
She told GB News: "She's talking to us like we're stupid, like we're idiots, like we don't understand what is actually going on, and we do.
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"How long are we going to have to bear with her? And this follows, of course, hot on the heels of the second free-loading scandal this week that we've seen. When I was watching it, it reminded me of past Chancellors, people like Nigel Lawson, people like Roy Jenkins, giants of men, clever men, informed men who delivered statements in a calm, rational manner.
"She was hectoring the other side. I just thought you have no respect, no respect for your office, no respect for your position."
Delivering his verdict on the Statement, commentator Jonathan Lis claimed that it was "not a statement a Labour Chancellor should be making".
He stated: "I don't think that this was a statement that a Labour Chancellor should have been making. I don't think it was the statement that a Labour Chancellor could be proud of making. This is incredibly disappointing.
"Fundamentally, it doesn't matter who is in Government, it is always wrong to balance the books on the backs of the poorest and most vulnerable, Particularly when balancing those books is really just squaring up a fiscal rule that you've invented yourself."
However, Lis also offered defence of Reeves and claimed she was "right" to declare that the "world is changing", amid incoming tariffs from US President Donald Trump.
He claimed: "With US tariffs coming down the line, we are going to be exposed, we're going to be exposed to these tariffs."
Hitting back at Lis, Malone concluded: "She inherited the fastest growing economy in the G7, and she's trashed it. There's no defence of that. All she had to do was nurture that take care of it. The growth forecast has now halved."
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